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And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

Izaak Walton
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Izaak Walton's Popular Quotes

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

- Izaak Walton

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

- Izaak Walton

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

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O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

- Izaak Walton

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

- Izaak Walton
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